Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-10-19

fest that none who have once enjoyed
them are willing voluntarily to do
without them. To have succession
of delicious fruits, plucked at maturi-
ty from the trees and vines which one
has planted and reared, and to par
take daily of fresh-gathered vegetables
from ones garden, the product Of his
labor, promotive alike of health and
pleasure, are no mean qualifications;
and yet they are privileges, am too
sorry to say, which though all can en-
10Y, but few, comparatively, at pres.
emit, do participate in.
Let me enumerate some of the good
things, conducive alike to health and
innocent qualification, which garden
may be made to produce with very
little expense Our perennial prod
ucts, which require very little care
after they are once established. I
will name, Of fruits, the strawberry
(for these will be smothered by the
grass on well conducted farm), the
currant, gooseberry, plum, pear.
ounce, grape, and in situations where
they will thrive, the apricot and peach.
But of fruits, would have none but
the best sorts; for the best are as
cheap as tho worst, are as easily cul-
tivated, and are infinitely more
healthy and grateful. These, il well
selected, will give succession of fruit.
from June to November, and In pref
served state during the year. Plants,
to begin with, will cost from So to S.
They may be multiplied by grating,
budding, etc., by the boys or men of
the family, without any expense. The
trees should be so arranged as to
shade as little as possible the grounds
that are 10 be titled. Half dozen
roofs of the pie-plant (rhubarb) will
| furnish abundant materials for pies
and tarts, little, if any, inferior to
the gooseberry, from April to July, or
until the fruit is sufficiently advanced
to supply it's place. These should be
planted two feet apart in good soil.
A bed OF 4Ox315 feet will supply the
table with delicious asparagus during
a part of April, and the whole of May
and June. if kept in good order. For
this the ground should be dug deep
and made rich. The seed, which will
cost g. shilling, should be sown in
drills ten or twelve inches apart, about
the first Of May; the bed should be
kept free from weeds, and the ground
forked in the spring. The third year
it will be fit to cut. Or roots may be
bought at fifty cents the hundred,
which will give a crop the second year.
Plant tkem six inches apart in the
drills. About ESQ plants will fill a
bed of the given dimensions. Among
the perennials may also class some
medicinal plants and sweet herbs
which are useful and necessary in the
economy of g. family, such as sage,
thyme, hyssop, balm, rue, tansy,
NORWOOD, etc., which it requires ten
times the labor to beg from more prov
ident neighbours than it does to raise
in our garden. The annual products
which 60 towards subsisting a family,
and which are seldom produced but
in the garden, are numerous, as the
onion, beet, carrot, parsnip, cabbage,
peas, beans, pot herbs, salads, rad
ishes, squash, cucumber, melon, etc.,
Some of these are in use most of the
season, and most of them afford valu-
able winter stores.
These productions of the garden
which I have named-and the list
might be greatly extended-are
useful in the economy of family.
They afford g. grateful variety, and
tend to lessen, in no inconsiderabIe
degree, the quantity of more solid
and expensive food which would be
required without them; and yet they
may all Reproduced in sufficient guam
titles for an ordinary family upon a
quarter of an acre of ground, and
without seriously abstracting from
the ordinary labors of the farm. A
garden is truly a. matter of economy
IN a pecuniary point OF view; but when
[ add to this consideration the COM
fort and pleasure which it affords, /
am persuaded am in the line of duty,
in commencing the subject to the par
ticular consideration of my readers.
1t is not my purpose at present to
prescribe rules for laying out or man
aging g. garden; yet ] cannot forbear
to suggest that the first step should
be to enclose it with good substan-
tial fence, and to keep that at all
times in repair so as effectually to ex-
clude hoof and hog.
have said nothing of the sale of
the surplus products of g. garden, al
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out g. market for such products; nor
have I noticed the ornamental de-
partment, because the wife or daugh-
ters will see to this; hey will have
their shrubbery and their flower Dor
der American Cultivator.
Bury the Big Rocks.
While the ground remains unfrOZen-
save as snow, surface crust-farmers
owning lands on which large rocks
crop out, may make good use OF spare
time in getting them out of sight.
This may bedone by drilling and blast
ing, or better, by digging g. hole along
side and partially under and topping
the rocks in. Sometimes these rocks
do not come above the surface, but
are sufficiently near for the pillow to
strike them. These are very annoy
ing and when struck tbs place should
be marked and the first opportunity